Today in Black History: September 11th

James Charles Evers, born in 1922 in Mississippi, was a civil rights leader who fought against racial discrimination and became the first Black mayor of Fayette, Mississippi in 1969 after his brother Medgar's assassination. The United Black Front (UBF), formed in 1968, was a coalition of 50 Black Power organizations that advocated for ending white oppression and gaining political and economic influence, but dissolved in the early 1970s despite its initial power. Godwin Ajala, a Nigerian-born lawyer working as a security guard at the World Trade Center while studying for the New York Bar Exam, heroically helped evacuate thousands from Two World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks, sacrificing his life at age 33.